18-year-old pair arrested for drug possession after pulled over in Hoboken for failing to use turn signals: police

Google MapsA traffic stop to failing to use turn signals ended up with two 18-year-olds under arrest for drug possession, according to police.

A traffic stop for failing to use turn signals ended up with two 18-year-olds under arrest for drug possession, according to police.

Officers were on patrol in the area near the Hoboken Housing Authority around 12:20 a.m. on Saturday when they saw a vehicle make a right turn from Sixth Street onto Jackson Street without using its turn signal, police said. The car made two subsequent turns without a blinker, according to police.

When officers approached the vehicle, they smelled an odor of burnt marijuana coming from the car and asked the 21-year-old driver who was smoking, who repeatedly answered, “no one,” as did the three passengers, reports said.

Another officer toward the rear of the vehicle saw two passengers in the backseat later identified as Christopher Posada, 28, of Union City, and Russell Furino, 18, of North Bergen, appear nervous and shivering in the backseat, and at one point Posada allegedly was seen placing an unknown item in his waistband, police said.

The officer reached into the vehicle and asked the 18-year-old what he had placed in his waistband and asked him to exit the vehicle, police said.

A search by officers revealed a plastic bag containing what is believed to be marijuana, three envelopes stamped “hot sauce” containing what is believed to be heroin and a white pill believed to be Xanax, according to reports.

Posda was immediately placed in handcuffs and officers asked the others in the car if there was anything else, to which Furino told an officer he had marijuana rolled in cigar paper, which was found in his pocket partially smoked, police said.

The driver of the car was given a field sobriety test after she denied having additional drugs in the car and did not consent to having her car searched. She passed the test, and was then issued a summons for making an improper turn, police said.

Furino was charged with possession of marijuana for the cigar found in his right pocket, reports said. Posada was charged with various drug possession charges, police said.